PAUL CONRAD (1924 2010) Flag Raising At Guantanamo

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PAUL CONRAD (1924-2010)
"Flag Raising At Guantanamo." Cartoon published in The Los Angeles Times, July 3, 1980. Ink on paper. 10 1/2 x 14 inches. Signed and dated in lower right image. Inscribed, "For Jules."

Provenance: From the collection of Jules Feiffer.

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Feiffer commentary: I think Conrad was, in the years that I was working, and maybe before and after, the best American editorial cartoonist we had. Far better than Herblock or anybody else. He was better because he was more radical like me. We were good friends, and I loved him. He drank like crazy. When I was in LA, we would get together and start drinking right away and just stay up all night. He often had me stay as a guest in his house in Costa Verde, which was a beautiful suburb of Los Angeles. He never shut up, and I never shut up, and we talked all night. He had true radical politics, yet he was the cartoonist for the L.A. Times. He was he got away with murder there. This cartoon is just a terrific example of his work. When he got his third Pulitzer Prize, I happened to be in LA and was invited to the party that the L.A. Times gave. He said in a speech he made I won't consider this prize legitimate until my friend Feiffer gets one. And I got one of the next year.